Calendar. 1939live

Glenn Miller is recording "In the Mood"

The Gdańsk political police arrested Teodor Klimkiewicz

Three Soviet planes crossed the Finnish border

World War I: 25th anniversary

Albert Einstein writes a letter to Roosevelt

Adolf Hitler visits the Tannenberg memorial

The English parliament is on recess for the holidays

Ribbentrop meets with Georgy Astakhov - Soviet diplomat

Medical licenses of Jewish doctors are being revoked in Germany

Germany is considering transference of Slovakia from Hungary

Hitler travels to Obersalzberg

Obligatory registration of citizens

British-French military mission leaving to USSR

Frida Kahlo arrives in Paris

Customs officers need to stop their activities in Gdańsk on August 6

Launch of the Dinah Shore Show

Aggressive anti-Polish campaign in the German press

Frida Kahlo painting "The Two Fridas"

Mobilization against Poland in Germany

Hitler meets the Danzig gauleiter

Opening night of the Venice Film Festival

25th anniversary of First Cadre Company in Krakow

Air defense exercises in the UK

Hitler at the Salzburg music festival

Chuchill attending Fighter exercises

Poland maintains full control of customs in Gdańsk

Start of aerial maneuvers in England

Germany protests Poland's demands for customs affairs in Gdańsk

German agents are purchasing Polish zlotys

Ciano meets Ribbentrop in Salzburg

Gdańsk Gauleiter returns from a meeting with Chancellor Hitler

Out-of-the-budget donations for the Polish Army approved

Preparations for Soviet-Anglo-French negotiations in Moscow

Attack on the Polish border guard

"The City of San Francisco" train derailed

The Gdańsk political police arrested an employee of the Polish Railway

Ciano-Ribbentrop meeting on the role of Italy in the Gdańsk campaign

Ciano meeting with Hitler

"L'Indifferent" by Watteau stolen from the Louvre

Ribbentrop: there are no conflicts of interest between Germany and Russia

Two Polish customs inspectors arrested in Gdańsk

Salzburg conversations take place despite warnings from Poland and France

"Wizard of Oz" opens in the USA

German press: normal relations with Poland are disrupted

Hitler celebrates the 25th anniversary of World War I

USSR demands permission to enter Polish and Romanian territory in the event of a war

Shoot-to-kill order given to Polish troops

Raskolnikov writes a public letter to Stalin

Hyppodrome Theater demolished in New York

Molotov: USSR is ready to improve its relations with Germany

Joseph Goebbels visits the Venice Film Festival

Children with developmental delays have to be reported

Poland wants peace but is ready to fight

Molotov drafts the Russo-German pact

29,000 German agents are active in Gdańsk

Permanent alliance is to be signed between England and Poland

Soviets demand a possibility to enter in contact with the German army

Shirer: Our Embassy is divided. Most think Poland will give a good account of itself

Hermann Lang wins the race in Switzerland

Visit of Franco-British War Mission to Moscow

Charlie Chaplin stops setting of "The Great Dictator"

Visit of Ribbentrop to Moscow is arranged

Hitler gives a speech for military officials about future war

British Government discusses the Gdansk Crisis

Military conversations between Hitler and German army commanders

23 August Live broadcast

Partitial mobilisation in Warsaw

Emergency Powers (Defence) Act accepted by British parliament

Mobilisation in Germany

Louvre is closed for evacuation

German bomber soared over Poland

British-Polish Pact is concluded

Today 26 August

Reich Party Congress canceled

German ship Schleswig-Holstein arrived to Gdansk

France and England issued extensive mobilization regulations